The Vail Spot: Worried About the National Debt?

Nemo me impune lacessit

No one provokes me with impunity

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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Article 1, Section 9, Constitution of the United States

If this is the law of the land...why in a republic (little r) and as republicans, do we allow mere POLITICIANS to the right to use a "title of office" for the rest of their lives as if it were de facto a patent of nobility. Because, as republicans, this should NOT be the case...just saying...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Worried About the National Debt?

Via Instapundit.com:

Simple charts vividly demonstrate the immensity of the exploding debt problem now faced by the United States. The large expansion of debt in World War II looks like a small blip compared to what's coming if we do not change policy. Click here to see the charts I used to compare U.S. debt history with CBO projections in my Economics lectures at Stanford today. The source is the spreadsheet for CBO's alternative fiscal scenario in its June Long-Term Budget Outlook.

If our Congress keeps spending at the rate they are now...we'll run out of money in 40 years. That's our grand children's time. Can we afford this any more?

VOTE THE BUMS OUT! All of them, regardless of party. It's time for a clean slate in Congress. It'll take 6 more years to clean out the Senate, but we can get rid of the House, next year!